10 Little Indians will go on!
I’ve been keeping you up to date on the NAACP-manufactured outrage over a high school production of Agatha Christie’s “10 Little Indians.” A tipster sends word this afternoon that the show will go on. Here’s the statement from the Lakota High School district. The students prevailed, but “diversity-mongering” continues…
Lakota to Hold Play at Lakota East High School
This morning Superintendent Mike Taylor announced that the show will go on. Citing discussions in recent days that he said moved the issue away from students and diversity to claims of censorship, he said the Lakota East theater department will perform the play on December 13 and 14, with additional materials, conversations, or other activities to honor diversity in the community.
In a new wrinkle, the school district also learned that the school was actually using an out-of-print, older version of the play. While this did not affect the decision to hold the play, it does change the title to the correct “And Then There Were None.”Taylor said that a group of students and community members would work together to determine what would be added before or after the performance to honor diversity.
A statement from Superintendent Mike Taylor:
Two weeks ago, we learned there was history around a previous title to the play “Ten Little Indians”.
Learning this history caused a negative impact on some members of our community, our staff, and our students. The original decision to cancel the play was made out of respect for these valuable members of our schools and community. We believed that performing the play could damage these important relationships.
We had hoped that this choice would become a springboard for a broader discussion of inclusion and tolerance. Unfortunately the community dialogue in recent days has become focused more on distracting issues like censorship and the NAACP’s role in our community. This has taken away from the direction we hoped for and our students have been caught in the middle.
Decisions that involve the emotions of people are challenging. Right now, we need to refocus on our students and return to our original goal. We need to move forward. I believe the best way forward is to allow the performance of the play to occur while using it as a learning vehicle.
We have asked for our community’s help to stage this play and, at the same time, provide that vehicle for discussion about what we as a community believe. We can make this a learning experience together.
In this process, we learned that our drama department inadvertently had the wrong version of the play. Since 2004, the Agatha Christie family has released the play for performance only under the title, “And Then There Were None.”
The play will be performed under the corrected title, “And Then There Were None.”
We apologize to the students and families who have been affected by events of recent weeks.
We’ve learned a great deal already—proof that everyone can and should continue to learn and grow.
We appreciate Gary Hines, the leader of our local NAACP bringing this to our attention.
We hope that all community members will support our drama students and come to learn more about themselves and their neighbors by attending the play performance.
We hope that you will understand our good intentions, and that we continue to believe strongly that as a community, we can still learn much about and celebrate our diversity.
The Lakota East students will perform “And Then There Were None” on December 13 and 14 at Lakota East High School.”
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Alas, it’s just a matter of time before another racial shakedown attempt occurs.
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Translation:
“We buckled to manufactured outrage, then realized that the real outrage of common sense citizens was far worse. We applied Solomonic cut-the-baby-in-half nonsense wisdom, hoping everybody would just forget about it. Where can I get a drink?”
Notice that the NAACP rep is reviewing his “options”. One of the things not well covered is that this same rep is trying to sell diversity training to Lakota school district. Can you say “conflict of interest”.
Is this necessary? People just want to see the play…not hear a bunch of PC stupidity.
Racial sensitivity training alongside a drama-group play for and by kids?
How stupid….
When they start adding racial sensitivity discussion around thug-rap concert venues and radical political & religious gatherings - we can talk.
Til then - leave the damn kids alone.
Give them all heart attacks and do a play about the baby JESUS. Then, place people with common sense in their vacated positions.
Good for them.
Not sucking up, as that’s not my style, but nice job Michelle.
I wonder if sensitive, left-leaning students will disrupt the play just like their “grown-up”, left-leaning role models disrupt free speech. You think?
Sadly, this is not a win and school staff learned nothing here. Not when it results in pre-packaged PC statements like these:
Yep, just a matter of time until the next episode.
Very good points.
Would some lusty booing be appropriate for this portion of the performance?
First the art, afterward the arses.
Mandatory Sunday school for those going to rap concerts on Saturdays.
I guess Mr Hines misses a payday this time.MM is right,He be back.
Oh, gag…
“We had hoped that this choice [to cancel the play] would become a springboard for a broader discussion of inclusion and tolerance.”
Yea, right. You thought that your own Nazi-like repression would cause the people who you were shutting down to come round for a nice chat on the politically correct themes of your choice. What an idiot.
these people teach? i can’t believe it.
so, this was all planned? to let the students plan on performing 10 little indians, only to cancel it as a “springboard for a broader discussion of inclusion and tolerance”? you take us for fools, really. why can’t you just say the backlash was too much for you to handle and you looked like hypocrites? why can’t you ever just say ‘defeated’? why must this always warp into some kind of scheme looking to illicit a ‘broader’ discussion of some vague topic.
Thank you-Michelle- for the link(?) to make comments directed to the East Lakota HS and requesting a reply from them. I am sure many from your site made comments. As always-when US citizens become actively involved- common sense correction usually occures.
If Mr Hines decids to try another shakedown of the school system, why not hire aomeone to do a sensitivity training program at the schools…someone from say, the Jewish Anti-defamation league to talk about the history of anti-Semitism, say, or for that matter >any
any other speaker with a history of being discrimiated against…like Micelle coming in to talk about having her maiden name mocked and being set up as a spit target on national tv?
Glad to see common sense prevailing over political correctness. The school board made a good decision after they looked at the matter from a logical stand point and not a knee-jerk emotional reaction.
This is a school district administrator that doesn’t know what century he’s in? I think PC sensitivity is the least of their problems.
They probably teach fuzzy math too.
bravo!
It is becoming my conviction, after way to many years on the taxpayers dime in both education and the federal service (sorry), that what we need is for the adults to show up and FIRE a whole lot of people.
Thank you.
hooray!!
From Dayton Daily News
Mike Taylor Super
“We’re a team and we need to be a team, for the health of the school district and continuing to move it forward to the 20th century,” he said.
This is the guy in charge …really tells us a lot about where he is coming from!
Someone ( and I seem to think it was Hines) tried a
similar tactic here in TX and almost got away with it.
I think it may have been Dallas ISD and they caught on when nothing happened after he got money. I felt
like he was subscribing to the Jesse Jackson tactic of
if nothing else works scare the pants off of them by
threatening picket lines and boycotts and then collect the blackmail money. What did Indians have t do with
the NAACP, anyway? Was this a black Indian tribe that
we’re talking about? There is an entire town of black
Indians in TX. I didn’t hear them griping.
Gary Hines needs to be treated like the pariah of the community he is. Once upon a time a community would tar, feather, and run people like him out of town on a rail. I am elated to see that common sense triumph over manufactured racism. Mr. Hines no shakedown for you.
jrl, #3
perfect.
And the Play will go on, love it.
Why would you “honor” something that is detrimental?
Stay tuned folks, until the next episode.
The school board gave an inch, and Gary Hines (ptui) will take a mile, and run with it.
Changing the name will not matter to these race baiting, PC driven, victimization loving, diversity grieving dirt-mongers.
Has anybody who opposed that play being done ever thought that sometimes, a play is just a play? Good grief.
This is all about getting in the spotlight and the MSM promoting it. If there is money to make and “power” to obtain, you’ll find people being offended by everything. In an otherwise boring life, it gives them a chance to get their “15 seconds of fame”.
Yeah, I’m sure they’d appreciate Jesse and Al coming over, too.
Why is it that all liberals want is a “conversation” a “dialogue”, a “discussion” when their fingers get caught in the diversity pie, and when conservatives agree to all this nonsense, liberals are just as bigoted and racist as they’ve ever been?
What is so crazy to me about all this is how much was done to please the diversity police with this piece of work — changed the title, changed the locale, etc so it wouldn’t be offensive. And even after they willingly did all that, the NAACP still wants to make a stink about it. So what’s the point in ever giving into their demands. They will always have issue with it even if you change everything to please them!
Change the name to “10 Little Grievance Mongers.”